“When designing your study, you cannot just focus on what you will say if you find significance. Every doc student thinks their dissertation is going to revolutionize the field. No. This is not the case many times. So my advice to you, is hope for significance, but plan for non-significance. Those are the best research designs; the ones that still contribute to the field even when a significant value is not found.”

Dr. Dissertation Chair

This is such a simple, almost common sense idea that has dramatically transformed my approach to research design. Mind blown. 

(via randomrantings)

Re: Loving It: Practice

relovingit:

Today I was thinking about my “do yoga every day” March resolution and my commitment to work on long-term projects for 90 minutes before I check Tumblr and also this other quote I read once (that I don’t have a link to, unfortunately) about how with yoga it’s really important to just practice…

So many wise words here.

(Source: candytomysoul)

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
Simone de Beauvoir  (via thatkindofwoman)

(Source: lostinthesounds)

“Peace begins with me. Reconciliation begins with me. Healing begins with me. So when you practice deep breathing and smiling to the pain in you, and vow to begin anew, when you practice loving kindness, taking care of your pain and suffering, you are already practicing taking care of the other person.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (via nezua)

(Source: nirvikalpa)

“I’m lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why; some people fill in the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality, those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with ‘my idea of them.’”
Anais Nin
“Thought and sex are the only human activities which are not totally ridiculous.”
Jacques Vallee
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’”

Muhammad Ali: In His Own Words (via life)

Wise words to be applied to grad school…?

“And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.”
Haruki Murakami (via: onherway:conflictingheart)
“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although eating honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.”
A.A. Milne